It was hard not to want to kiss her when they were standing like this, but no matter how reckless he was feeling at the moment, Alfred wasn't going to go that far in a public street. When she said Ottery, though, it brought a subtle smile to his face. It wasn't so much a request for a place as it was for a time — back to Ottery, before the rescue mission, before the fight, before everything broke down.
"No, that's not stupid at all," he said, reaching up to lightly brush the fingers of his free hand down her arm. He wanted to go back there, too, and he didn't know that going to the physical place would somehow transport them back to an earlier version of themselves but he also didn't know for sure that it wouldn't. "Let's go."
"No, that's not stupid at all," he said, reaching up to lightly brush the fingers of his free hand down her arm. He wanted to go back there, too, and he didn't know that going to the physical place would somehow transport them back to an earlier version of themselves but he also didn't know for sure that it wouldn't. "Let's go."
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER